Ventilated barrel



(No Model.) T L VENTI'IZA'TED'BARREL. No; 310,141. Patented Dec.30,1884.

WITNESSES 1 DTVENTOR f d224, :5. may L/ w L/D 636W BY ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS I1. LEE, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

VENTILATED BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,141, dated December30, 1884.

Application filed August 6, 1884.

To all whom, it may concern.

Be it known that I, THOMAS L. LEE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilated Barrels,of which the following is a description.

Figure 1 is a vertical side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal central section.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap, andserviceable form of ventilated barrel for the shipment of fruits andvegetables; and to this end it consists in a bulged barrel composed ofheads, external end hoops, a middle inside hoop, plain straight stavesof uniform width sprung around the middle hoop, to form the bulge, thesaid staves being spaced and nailed to the middle hoop and the nailsclinched, as described.

In the drawings, A represents the staves, B

the heads, 0 O the outside end hoops, and D the inside middle hoop, ofmy improved barrel. This inside hoop is made larger than the outside endhoops, and to it the staves are first fastened by being separatelyspaced and nailed thereto, which nails are clinched on the inside of thebarrel by a metal-faced former-disk, as shown in my application for apatent, No. 138,038, filed July 18, 188eL, upon which ap plicationLetters Patent No. 307,313 have been granted subsequent to the filing ofthe present case. After the staves are nailed to the middle inside hoopand the barrel is removed from the former, the ends of the straightstaves are drawn together by a rope, as usual, and

(No model.)

the outside hoops put on, first at one end and then at the other, andthe heads put in, the inside hoop serving to give the bend to thestraight plain staves to form the bulge in the barrel. To preventmutilating the contents of the barrel, this inside hoop is maderounding, as shown, so that there shall be no sharp corners to out orscar the fruits or vegetables.

I am aware of the fact that it is not new to form a barrel with aninside hoop at the middle, which is seated in a transverse groove in thestaves', as shown in the patent to Burcha-rd, March 16, 1878. In thiscase, however,

the staves are not nailed and held rigidly the L proper distance apart,and the staves themselves are very much weakened by the transversegrooves. IVith'my construction straight staves may be used, and the costof the barrel is very much reduced and a stronger and better barrel isproduced, and it can, by the aid of the former described in my previousapplication, be readily constructed by cheap and unskilled labor.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- A bulgedbarrel composed of heads, external end hoops, a middle inside hoop, andplain straight staves of uniformwidth sprung around the middle hoop toform the bulge, the said staves being spaced and nailed to the middlehoopand the nails clinched, as described.

THOS. L. LEE.

Vitnesses:

S. L. FINLEY, J NO. 0. ROGERS.

